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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1907
Page
3
On Benefactor’s Day Craven Memorial Hall hosted exercises highlighted by President Kilgo’s address on American democracy. Dean Few read the gifts and donations totaling substantial endowment and current expenses, with a list of donors and a summary of college growth and public service.
The October issue features wide variety of contributors from prominent universities. A central topic examines the railroad situation in North Carolina with D A Tompkins of Charlotte outlining real grievances and ex Judge Robert W Winston of Durham providing a concise history of the passenger receiver from the state perspective.
Archibald H. Blount of London bequeaths 400000 to Yale University. The eccentric donor is said to have never spent beyond necessities and to object to reterieve. No known prior connection to the University is reported.
The literary society and athletic association of Albert College Belleville Ontario are now departments of the College Young Men's Christian Association.
Union College claims status as mother of the first Greek letter fraternity and notes it hosts the first undenominational college in the country. Wesleyan Sophomores end the year with Cremations of Physics, a procession featuring an effigy of Physics and a mock funeral pyre. A man’s joke on dancing is quoted from the London Times.
A lengthy advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a safe, effective remedy for female ailments. It claims forty years of cures, open formula on bottles, endorsements from medical leaders, and suitability for delicate constitutions, urging consultation by letter.
The Blue Grass region of Kentucky and Tennessee is described as the first national park and game preserve in America set apart before white settlement. It was forbidden to settle or farm there by the Iroquois Six Nations, earning the area the nickname inner “outing grounds” in the New Orleans Daily States.
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